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Chanel & Welles

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Tell your story but remember: It's yours . So make it the story you want it to be. ...

Gobble Gobble

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Today I am thankful for my family, my friends  and the continued adventure that is my career.  #Thanksgiving2018 #IMthankful  ...

William Goldman II

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William Goldman  August 12, 1931 - November 15, 2018) “A screenplay is a piece of carpentry,” he once said.  “And except in the case of Ingmar Bergman, it’s not an art, it’s a craft.” “Life isn't fair, it's just fairer than death, that's all.”  William Goldman,  The Princess Bride “Do I love you? My God, if your love were a grain of sand,  mine would be a universe of beaches.”  William Goldman,  The Princess Bride “As you wish.”  William Goldman,  The Princess Bride “The easiest thing to do on earth is not write.”  William Goldman ...

William Goldman - Legendary Screenwriter

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Legend and Oscar-winning screenwriter  William Goldman  has died at 87. Goldman was often regarded as one of the most influential screenwriters in Hollywood history. BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID (1969) THE PRINCESS BRIDE (1987) That's right.  He wrote one of the most famous lines in movie history.  “Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.”  ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN (1976) MARATHON MAN (1976) ABSOLUTE POWER (1996) MISERY (1990) THE GHOST AND THE DARKNESS (1982) MAVERICK (1994)  DREAMCATCHER (2003) MAGIC (1978) Goldman’s amazing list of credits also includes Marathon Man (1976), Misery (1990), The Stepford Wives (1975) and Chaplin (1992)  Rest in peace, Mr. Goldman.  ...

Churchill

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Take the punches.  Get back up, lick the blood off your lip, smile and start swinging.  ...

Ann Dowd

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Actress Ann Dowd.  From an open letter she penned for Glamour Magazine.  Her IMDb resume https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0235652/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1 ...

Wild Geese by Mary Oliver

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"Meanwhile the world goes on..." ...

Sanford Meisner

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#SanfordMeisner  ...

Sir Laurence Olivier II

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#SirLaurence      #actorstuff       #actortruth ...

The O'Toole Story - Brilliance

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Irish Times  photographer Brenda Fitzsimons recalls how she bumped into O’Toole in Clifden many years ago, and how the talk turned, after an hour or so, to what he would like carved on his tombstone.  O'Toole began telling the story of his favorite jacket, a buckskin suede number that had marked on it every drop of tear, blood, sweat and whatever else from his long career.  Seems he made the mistake of sending it to the local dry cleaners, where it promptly disappeared, and he assumed with some regret that he would never see it again. Years later, a package arrived at his house, and when he unsheathed it from its cellophane, there was his laundered jacket. Pinned on it was a large note attached by the cleaner. “Sycamore Cleaners. It distresses us to return work which is not perfect.” O’Toole looked at the label and thought, as an epitaph, that will do nicely. Peter James O'Toole.  British stage and film actor. 1932-2013 ....

Spencer Tracy - Screen Legend

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#SpencerTracy      #actorstuff      #actortruth ...

Peter O'Toole - Rascal Actor

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Peter O'Toole.  I'm including a link below. It's from Late Night with David Letterman. It's just Peter O'Toole telling a story. And it's just absolutely brilliant.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usNndc8NthA

Sir Laurence Olivier

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Olivi- a-men . #SirLaurence  #actorstuff   #actortruth ...

Paul Newman

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#PaulNewman     #actorstuff     #actortruth